The Guest Room, Diana Hendry's new collection of poems, continues her always perceptive explorations of family, childhood and finding oneself, encounters with people (whether neighbours or strangers) and animals (pets or otherwise). Added to this is her embracing of Seamus Heaney's notion of poetry paying attention to the world, here including climate change, coronavirus, political prisoners, Palestine and the health service, for example - never preachy, telling it slant.There's pleasure to be found throughout, in her craft and characteristic wry humour and in what U.A.Fanthorpe called her 'remarkable eye for the truth and an ability to see the otherness in the ordinary.'

Comments on previous Worple collection,TheWatching Stair. 'a collection of poignant, often wryly humorous and always beautifully crafted poems...' - Vicki Feaver 'accessible, highly intelligent, wide-ranging poems that have a wonderful psychological truthfulness' - D. M. Black

About the Author
Diana Hendry has published seven poetry collections, including The Seed-Box Lantern: New & Selected Poems (Mariscat Press, 2013). Her most recent publications are The Watching Stair (Worple Press, 2018) and Where I Was (Mariscat, 2020). She is the author of more than forty books for children, winning a Whitbread Award with Harvey Angell. From 1997-8 she was Writer in Residence at Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary. In 2007 she was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Edinburgh from 2008-10. She also writes short stories, which have been widely broadcast and published, and has co-edited New Writing Scotland. She lives in Edinburgh.

Reviews
'generosity of spirit' Richie McCaffery 'riches of feeling, unexpected depths and meanings, and a jolt to the senses in every tightly-controlled poem' James Roderick Burns



Book Information
ISBN 9781905208487
Author Diana Hendry
Format Paperback
Page Count 76
Imprint Worple Press
Publisher Worple Press